Re: [csswg-drafts] Updating the css `env()` function to enable selection by index from a list of pre-defined environment variables (#5622)

I'm not sure I understand what value the index() function is bringing here. Your proposal is for allowing an env() variable to be multi-valued, with an integer index to select one of the values; index() doesn't add anything here, and is being used with a syntax and purpose unrelated to its original proposal.

If you need something like this functionality, we can just add an optional integer to the syntax, so `env(name 1)` is valid and has the meaning you're sketching.

That said, I'm not sure I see how this affects the verbosity at all. All it's doing is moving the integer out of the name. I don't immediately see how this changes what the names would actually be, however - aren't `env(display-segment-1-width)` and `env(display-segment-width 1)` essentially identical?

It's possible I'm missing some important details of this proposal. ^_^

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